problem using git to checkout xf86-video-intel

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:34:03AM -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote:
> I'm behind a proxy and I export the http_proxy variable and use the
> following command to checkout xf86-video-intel:
> 
> git clone http://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
> <== I have to substitute the git:// by http://, because without it I was
> getting the following message: fatal: unable to connect a socket
> (Connection refused)
> 
> The xf86-video-intel dir come with some informations in the .git dir,
> but the .git dir was the only thing in the direcory.
> 
> There is something that I'm doing wrong. I follow the instruction in
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver and can't realize where I'm
> get wrong.

Try deleting the directory and running git clone again; often it
silently fails when the directory's already there.  If that fails, try
git co or something.
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